In the mysterious and deep Yangtze River Valley Road, a large number of people on the north shore are like a long torrent, but now they have stopped to block the road; the Shu army fortifications in front are a flood control embankment, blocking the passage.
The noisy sounds rippled back and forth between the rugged mountains on both sides, like the roar of a mountain torrent.
The Zhou soldiers in front of the fort were digging trenches, busy, like a scene of emergency work.
The soldiers were in the winding and detoured ditches, not weapons, but hoes and shovels, desperately digging the soil.
In this place, there are no stones or soil underground, so the Shu army can dig deep trenches in front of the fort, and the Zhou army can naturally dig them too.
Unlike the work scene, the stones on their heads were flying around, and the stones shot out by the stone cannon fell on the ground everywhere.
Occasionally, a stone fell into the ditch, which made the Zhou soldiers scream.
So people couldn't help looking up at the sky while digging the soil.
The ground outside the trench was already full of stones, and the stone cannons of the Shu army did not stop for a moment.
Arrows flew in from time to time, but most of them could not shoot the people in the ditch.
The Shu army's passive defense tactics could only use long-range attempts to attack the Zhou army to dig trenches, but the army did not come out and was blocked behind the deep trenches and fortresses by its own fortifications.
In the camp behind, Guo Shao was sitting in front of a rough wooden table under his generals' eyes.
The wooden table is so rough that there is only one wooden board and a few stones to cushion.
There were paper and pens on the wooden boards, and he looked like a construction engineer, not a general.
The ditch was dug in front of the fort, and you two went up to supervise in person, continued to dig as I said, and came back to report the situation in detail.You must look carefully. If something goes wrong, it is equivalent to ineffective combat!Guo Shao spoke to a general next to him.
The general asked carefully: Will gunpowder blow us up?
Won't!Guo Shao said with certainty that this is a directional blast, don’t worry.
Guo Shao has never done the blasting job, but he has seen it before and can understand the rules: gunpowder will leak energy in the direction of the most fragile seal, otherwise why can't the gunpowder explode but will spray expanding heat energy from the gap?
There are also artillery similar, because the gun wall cannot be blown up, and energy will be vented from the muzzle in a direction.
In life, use a needle to poke a small hole, and the bursting and tearing are also the punctured position.
Ren Guoshao has learned a lot of knowledge and is not very clear about the principles of this professionalism, but his life and knowledge have already told him the rules.
Guo Shao pointed to the things drawn on the drawings and explained to the general.
This person had done a cave attack in the past, and could dig tunnels and was good at building siege fortifications, so Guo Shao felt that it would be a little more reliable to let him supervise civil engineering work, at least he had experience.
Guo Shao himself would not go up. He personally wore cannon arrows, and rocks and arrows were flying on his head, so close to the fortress. If he was not lucky, wouldn’t he die very unfair?
He felt that if he didn't commit suicide, he wouldn't die.
...The front army did not dig tunnels directly, which was too troublesome. A group of people digging trenches in the open air and approaching the fortress was much faster.
Everyone dug another ditch in front of the trench fortification of the Shu army, and brought sandbags to the front. They were less than twenty steps apart. Both sides could see what the other side looked like when they showed their heads.
Even though they were so close, the Shu army had no choice but to do anything to them.
The heavy weapons of this era are stone throwers and crossbows. The stone throwers shoot stones from their heads. The accurate head and frequency are limited. Of course, the most limited is the lethality. Occasionally, if a stone hits, it will kill and injure one person at most. The crossbows shoot flat and cannot hit people hiding in the ditch.
Then the generals of Zhou army who were proficient in cave attacks were asking people to dig a hole. This hole was much simpler than digging a tunnel. It was like digging a hole diagonally down from the rear like digging a well.
After digging the hole, it digs upwards and then digs upwards, and the tunnel is like a flat V-shaped one.
The hole was not deep, so it was dug in less than half a day after construction.
Get it here!quick!The general turned around and urged him. A stone suddenly fell on the ditch next to him, which surprised him and his neck shrank down.
Some people in the trench were arching their backs with baskets carrying stones, and some people were carrying coffins behind them.
Of course, the coffin was not a corpse, but gunpowder. The things Zhou Jun had prepared long ago, and was originally planning to encounter a strong city that could not conquer the bombing city. Fortunately, the battle against Shu was prepared for a long time by the whole country, and the amount of gunpowder was sufficient.
It is now noon, and some soldiers are sitting in the ditches and eating wheat cakes with water.
Suddenly, when the general looked back, a soldier's head was hit by a stone cannon, and his helmet could not resist the stone. The soldier's head broke and his blood slid into the ditch without even screaming, and a wisp of blood suddenly flowed out of his helmet soaked the mud.
He still had a wheat cake in his mouth.
The general glanced at the cake in his mouth and cursed disgustedly: Fuck!
There were people everywhere, and the generals didn't ask about it and personally got into the cave.Another exit from the cave faces the Shu army fortress, and the opening is on the wall of the deep trench dug by the Shu army itself, and there is still a thin layer of soil left.
There were still candles in the hole, but the light that penetrated through a small hole at the hole was brighter than the candle.
The general came to Kong and looked outside for a while, then took the candle from the soldiers and looked carefully at the surrounding pit walls.
The left and right and bottom have been tamped with wooden pounds, and wooden beams are also built on the top... Rammed earth is the most familiar and exquisite work for people at this time, because at this time, whether it is to repair city walls or private houses, most of them are tamped with earth; brick walls are rare.
The stones and stones mix with the soil and seal them in front first, so that they don’t need to be too solid.The general ordered.
The soldiers carrying baskets came up to work hard.
Soon, the general ordered the coffin containing gunpowder to be placed inside, with a total of eight coffins.
(Why are eight people? Guo Shao himself doesn’t know why. Anyway, if you put too much, you don’t need to worry too much about this cost when fighting.) The lead wire is wrapped in oil cloth, and the front section is wrapped in thin bamboo tube.
After Lei got the coffin, the general ordered the soldiers to ram the earth and ram the coffin with earth firmly with earth.The tunnel behind continued to rammed earth and filled it all the way back.
The Shu army seemed to be busy, maybe they felt that the Zhou army was digging tunnels and attacking, so they obviously didn't understand the situation.
There is no progress in the acupoint attack without ten days and half a month. The Shu army has all the time to temporarily prepare for defense underground.
...A lonely light ship with the Zhou Dynasty flag hanging on the river was on the surface of the river, and the oars on both sides of the ship were sailing slowly upstream like centipedes.
Plop... Some stones fell into the river from mid-air, and the ship quickly turned around and ran downstream.
There was a noise behind the Shu army fortress, as if mocking the ship peeking at the Shu army in a mess.
The flags on the ships kept shaking left and right.
On the front army on the shore, a general was holding his fist and said: Get the order!Then he drew his sword from his waist, raised it high, and shouted: Attack!
The war drum sounded, the flags on the flank were flat, and the infantry slowly approached.
Soon, stones on their heads flew over, and screams came from the army.
After dozens of steps, the crossbows in the two fortresses also shot arrows.
The Zhou army soldiers were holding iron wooden shields, and the team was already a little messy.
The wooden ladders in front were knocked down one after another, killing and killing... The shouts roared in the mountains, and the soldiers rushed forward with swords and shields.
I saw flags waving on the wooden arrow tower behind the Shu army fortress, and the defenders should have come out of the Tibetan army cave to prepare for battle.
The soldiers of Zhou army rushed to climb up the wooden ladder, and the stones and the arrows shot above their heads were like rain.
Arrows in the fortress flew everywhere, and even crossbows fired huge arrows with arms thickness; archers were taking turns to shoot arrows on wooden fences that were taller than the fortress behind the Shu army.
Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow... The boat on the river rowed upstream again. This time there were no stone cannons hit it, and the stone cannons of the Shu army were smashing the troops attacking the fortress.The flag on the ship changed direction and shook forward and backward.
At this time, the Zhou army was behind the scenes of Jin. The soldiers who had just rushed forward turned around and ran away. The crowd would go toward the ebb.
There was a gong sounding, and Zhou's army camp shouted.
The rebels who had just returned fell to the ground with the shouts of the generals, and the scene was very strange.
The soldiers behind all stared at the front with their eyes wide open, as if they were expecting something. Many people held their breath, and the noise here suddenly became less strange.
At this moment, there was a sudden loud bang, and the green mountains on both sides of the Yangtze River seemed to be shaken.
People obviously felt a trembling on the ground, as if it was an earthquake.
In an instant, fire and thick smoke blew up in front, and a large number of stones and soil erupted like a volcano erupting. Stones hit the castle and the stone walls and made a horrifying sound.
They seemed to destroy everything ahead, unstoppable.
Thousands of pounds of gunpowder lifted up the deep surface of the earth, and no matter what the things were leaning forward, they flew out at a much faster speed than arrows. If the stones were not blocked, they would have to fly at least one or two miles away.
The rapid smoke immediately enveloped the entire place ahead and could not see anything.
Boom boom boom... Like the continuous sound of muffled thunder, the explosion still echoed among the mountains on both sides for a long time.Countless people have been shocked.
A moment later, far behind the Shu army, the upper layer of the arrow tower was not yet filled with thick smoke. Jigu... Hugh... Amid the sound of wood rubbing, the arrow tower slowly fell backwards.
The Zhou army soldiers behind were already shocked, standing there one by one. The debris that were blown away did not affect the east, and they only soared towards the west sky as if they had eyes.
The Shu army camp was completely covered with thick smoke. No one knew what the situation was now. He could only hear Ah... A scream with hissing sound came from afar.
What are you waiting for?A general shouted loudly from behind.
Dongdongdongdongdong... A man stood in front of the big drum, shook his arms, and thundered from slow to fast to the drum.The whimpering horn sounded, and the soldiers came to their senses and started shouting loudly.
The soldiers who were on standby were different at this time, with wet towels on their shoulders, as if they were going to work to make sweat towels.
The noisy sounds rippled back and forth between the rugged mountains on both sides, like the roar of a mountain torrent.
The Zhou soldiers in front of the fort were digging trenches, busy, like a scene of emergency work.
The soldiers were in the winding and detoured ditches, not weapons, but hoes and shovels, desperately digging the soil.
In this place, there are no stones or soil underground, so the Shu army can dig deep trenches in front of the fort, and the Zhou army can naturally dig them too.
Unlike the work scene, the stones on their heads were flying around, and the stones shot out by the stone cannon fell on the ground everywhere.
Occasionally, a stone fell into the ditch, which made the Zhou soldiers scream.
So people couldn't help looking up at the sky while digging the soil.
The ground outside the trench was already full of stones, and the stone cannons of the Shu army did not stop for a moment.
Arrows flew in from time to time, but most of them could not shoot the people in the ditch.
The Shu army's passive defense tactics could only use long-range attempts to attack the Zhou army to dig trenches, but the army did not come out and was blocked behind the deep trenches and fortresses by its own fortifications.
In the camp behind, Guo Shao was sitting in front of a rough wooden table under his generals' eyes.
The wooden table is so rough that there is only one wooden board and a few stones to cushion.
There were paper and pens on the wooden boards, and he looked like a construction engineer, not a general.
The ditch was dug in front of the fort, and you two went up to supervise in person, continued to dig as I said, and came back to report the situation in detail.You must look carefully. If something goes wrong, it is equivalent to ineffective combat!Guo Shao spoke to a general next to him.
The general asked carefully: Will gunpowder blow us up?
Won't!Guo Shao said with certainty that this is a directional blast, don’t worry.
Guo Shao has never done the blasting job, but he has seen it before and can understand the rules: gunpowder will leak energy in the direction of the most fragile seal, otherwise why can't the gunpowder explode but will spray expanding heat energy from the gap?
There are also artillery similar, because the gun wall cannot be blown up, and energy will be vented from the muzzle in a direction.
In life, use a needle to poke a small hole, and the bursting and tearing are also the punctured position.
Ren Guoshao has learned a lot of knowledge and is not very clear about the principles of this professionalism, but his life and knowledge have already told him the rules.
Guo Shao pointed to the things drawn on the drawings and explained to the general.
This person had done a cave attack in the past, and could dig tunnels and was good at building siege fortifications, so Guo Shao felt that it would be a little more reliable to let him supervise civil engineering work, at least he had experience.
Guo Shao himself would not go up. He personally wore cannon arrows, and rocks and arrows were flying on his head, so close to the fortress. If he was not lucky, wouldn’t he die very unfair?
He felt that if he didn't commit suicide, he wouldn't die.
...The front army did not dig tunnels directly, which was too troublesome. A group of people digging trenches in the open air and approaching the fortress was much faster.
Everyone dug another ditch in front of the trench fortification of the Shu army, and brought sandbags to the front. They were less than twenty steps apart. Both sides could see what the other side looked like when they showed their heads.
Even though they were so close, the Shu army had no choice but to do anything to them.
The heavy weapons of this era are stone throwers and crossbows. The stone throwers shoot stones from their heads. The accurate head and frequency are limited. Of course, the most limited is the lethality. Occasionally, if a stone hits, it will kill and injure one person at most. The crossbows shoot flat and cannot hit people hiding in the ditch.
Then the generals of Zhou army who were proficient in cave attacks were asking people to dig a hole. This hole was much simpler than digging a tunnel. It was like digging a hole diagonally down from the rear like digging a well.
After digging the hole, it digs upwards and then digs upwards, and the tunnel is like a flat V-shaped one.
The hole was not deep, so it was dug in less than half a day after construction.
Get it here!quick!The general turned around and urged him. A stone suddenly fell on the ditch next to him, which surprised him and his neck shrank down.
Some people in the trench were arching their backs with baskets carrying stones, and some people were carrying coffins behind them.
Of course, the coffin was not a corpse, but gunpowder. The things Zhou Jun had prepared long ago, and was originally planning to encounter a strong city that could not conquer the bombing city. Fortunately, the battle against Shu was prepared for a long time by the whole country, and the amount of gunpowder was sufficient.
It is now noon, and some soldiers are sitting in the ditches and eating wheat cakes with water.
Suddenly, when the general looked back, a soldier's head was hit by a stone cannon, and his helmet could not resist the stone. The soldier's head broke and his blood slid into the ditch without even screaming, and a wisp of blood suddenly flowed out of his helmet soaked the mud.
He still had a wheat cake in his mouth.
The general glanced at the cake in his mouth and cursed disgustedly: Fuck!
There were people everywhere, and the generals didn't ask about it and personally got into the cave.Another exit from the cave faces the Shu army fortress, and the opening is on the wall of the deep trench dug by the Shu army itself, and there is still a thin layer of soil left.
There were still candles in the hole, but the light that penetrated through a small hole at the hole was brighter than the candle.
The general came to Kong and looked outside for a while, then took the candle from the soldiers and looked carefully at the surrounding pit walls.
The left and right and bottom have been tamped with wooden pounds, and wooden beams are also built on the top... Rammed earth is the most familiar and exquisite work for people at this time, because at this time, whether it is to repair city walls or private houses, most of them are tamped with earth; brick walls are rare.
The stones and stones mix with the soil and seal them in front first, so that they don’t need to be too solid.The general ordered.
The soldiers carrying baskets came up to work hard.
Soon, the general ordered the coffin containing gunpowder to be placed inside, with a total of eight coffins.
(Why are eight people? Guo Shao himself doesn’t know why. Anyway, if you put too much, you don’t need to worry too much about this cost when fighting.) The lead wire is wrapped in oil cloth, and the front section is wrapped in thin bamboo tube.
After Lei got the coffin, the general ordered the soldiers to ram the earth and ram the coffin with earth firmly with earth.The tunnel behind continued to rammed earth and filled it all the way back.
The Shu army seemed to be busy, maybe they felt that the Zhou army was digging tunnels and attacking, so they obviously didn't understand the situation.
There is no progress in the acupoint attack without ten days and half a month. The Shu army has all the time to temporarily prepare for defense underground.
...A lonely light ship with the Zhou Dynasty flag hanging on the river was on the surface of the river, and the oars on both sides of the ship were sailing slowly upstream like centipedes.
Plop... Some stones fell into the river from mid-air, and the ship quickly turned around and ran downstream.
There was a noise behind the Shu army fortress, as if mocking the ship peeking at the Shu army in a mess.
The flags on the ships kept shaking left and right.
On the front army on the shore, a general was holding his fist and said: Get the order!Then he drew his sword from his waist, raised it high, and shouted: Attack!
The war drum sounded, the flags on the flank were flat, and the infantry slowly approached.
Soon, stones on their heads flew over, and screams came from the army.
After dozens of steps, the crossbows in the two fortresses also shot arrows.
The Zhou army soldiers were holding iron wooden shields, and the team was already a little messy.
The wooden ladders in front were knocked down one after another, killing and killing... The shouts roared in the mountains, and the soldiers rushed forward with swords and shields.
I saw flags waving on the wooden arrow tower behind the Shu army fortress, and the defenders should have come out of the Tibetan army cave to prepare for battle.
The soldiers of Zhou army rushed to climb up the wooden ladder, and the stones and the arrows shot above their heads were like rain.
Arrows in the fortress flew everywhere, and even crossbows fired huge arrows with arms thickness; archers were taking turns to shoot arrows on wooden fences that were taller than the fortress behind the Shu army.
Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow... The boat on the river rowed upstream again. This time there were no stone cannons hit it, and the stone cannons of the Shu army were smashing the troops attacking the fortress.The flag on the ship changed direction and shook forward and backward.
At this time, the Zhou army was behind the scenes of Jin. The soldiers who had just rushed forward turned around and ran away. The crowd would go toward the ebb.
There was a gong sounding, and Zhou's army camp shouted.
The rebels who had just returned fell to the ground with the shouts of the generals, and the scene was very strange.
The soldiers behind all stared at the front with their eyes wide open, as if they were expecting something. Many people held their breath, and the noise here suddenly became less strange.
At this moment, there was a sudden loud bang, and the green mountains on both sides of the Yangtze River seemed to be shaken.
People obviously felt a trembling on the ground, as if it was an earthquake.
In an instant, fire and thick smoke blew up in front, and a large number of stones and soil erupted like a volcano erupting. Stones hit the castle and the stone walls and made a horrifying sound.
They seemed to destroy everything ahead, unstoppable.
Thousands of pounds of gunpowder lifted up the deep surface of the earth, and no matter what the things were leaning forward, they flew out at a much faster speed than arrows. If the stones were not blocked, they would have to fly at least one or two miles away.
The rapid smoke immediately enveloped the entire place ahead and could not see anything.
Boom boom boom... Like the continuous sound of muffled thunder, the explosion still echoed among the mountains on both sides for a long time.Countless people have been shocked.
A moment later, far behind the Shu army, the upper layer of the arrow tower was not yet filled with thick smoke. Jigu... Hugh... Amid the sound of wood rubbing, the arrow tower slowly fell backwards.
The Zhou army soldiers behind were already shocked, standing there one by one. The debris that were blown away did not affect the east, and they only soared towards the west sky as if they had eyes.
The Shu army camp was completely covered with thick smoke. No one knew what the situation was now. He could only hear Ah... A scream with hissing sound came from afar.
What are you waiting for?A general shouted loudly from behind.
Dongdongdongdongdong... A man stood in front of the big drum, shook his arms, and thundered from slow to fast to the drum.The whimpering horn sounded, and the soldiers came to their senses and started shouting loudly.
The soldiers who were on standby were different at this time, with wet towels on their shoulders, as if they were going to work to make sweat towels.